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Sto caricando le informazioni... Our little Panama cousin (1906)di Henry Lee Mitchell Pike
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"[...]again. "Let's batter down these old planks," said Harlan. Together the boys began to pound at the barricade. Though Vasco was a small lad, compared with Harlan, his well-trained muscles, hardened and toughened by out-door life, came well into play. Under such hammering as the boys were able to give, the planks began to loosen, and soon they made a hole large enough to crawl through. Fortunately, this was in a remote part of the basement, and none heard the noise the boys had made. No one dreamed of putting a guard at this point. The entrance had been so long closed that nearly everybody had forgotten it. Passing through, the boys found themselves in a small room which had[...]". Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This review is from: Vasco, Our Little Panama Cousin (Paperback)
An attempt to give a geography lesson to the young reader by means of following a fictitious local lad. With his new friend, the son of an American engineer, working on the Panama Canal, young Vasco gets to observe the construction work going on, as well as visiting rural cousins at their sugar mill , going to see the ruins of old Panama, and hearing of the buccaneers.
I laughed at Mr Pike's lack of political correctness, in talking of Vasco's ethnic background; 'perhaps this accounted for Vasco's aversion to hard labour'; and jingoism: 'the example of industry and persistent perseverance set by Americans...ought to be a source of inspiration to the leisure-loving native.'
Fair enough little story, and I learnt a few things, but pretty forgettable (